Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy:

Heart of Gold Tattoo ("Heart of Gold Tattoo") operates heartofgoldtattoo.com and may operate other websites. It is Heart of Gold Tattoo's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Heart of Gold Tattoo collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Heart of Gold Tattoo's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Heart of Gold Tattoo's visitors use its website. From time to time, Heart of Gold Tattoo may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Heart of Gold Tattoo also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on heartofgoldtattoo.com blogs/sites. Heart of Gold Tattoo only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Heart of Gold Tattoo's websites choose to interact with Heart of Gold Tattoo in ways that require Heart of Gold Tattoo to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Heart of Gold Tattoo gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at heartofgoldtattoo.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Heart of Gold Tattoo are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Heart of Gold Tattoo collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Heart of Gold Tattoo. Heart of Gold Tattoo does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Heart of Gold Tattoo may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Heart of Gold Tattoo may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Heart of Gold Tattoo does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Heart of Gold Tattoo discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Heart of Gold Tattoo's behalf or to provide services available at Heart of Gold Tattoo's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Heart of Gold Tattoo's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Heart of Gold Tattoo will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Heart of Gold Tattoo discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Heart of Gold Tattoo believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Heart of Gold Tattoo, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Heart of Gold Tattoo website and have supplied your email address, Heart of Gold Tattoo may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Heart of Gold Tattoo and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Heart of Gold Tattoo takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Heart of Gold Tattoo uses cookies to help Heart of Gold Tattoo identify and track visitors, their usage of Heart of Gold Tattoo website, and their website access preferences. Heart of Gold Tattoo visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Heart of Gold Tattoo's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Heart of Gold Tattoo's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Heart of Gold Tattoo, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Heart of Gold Tattoo goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Heart of Gold Tattoo may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Heart of Gold Tattoo and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Heart of Gold Tattoo may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Heart of Gold Tattoo's sole discretion. Heart of Gold Tattoo encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a heartofgoldtattoo.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.